Food Services Director (Food Services)

General Duties:
Represent The Van Buren Center professionally in the community. Understands and is able to
communicate the philosophy of the Caring Kitchen and on a daily basis helps to deliver information
to the staff and partner populations about the meals, the sources of the food, the recipes and the
overall Food Services program goals.
Establish procedures that will continue to maintain high standards of food service operations.
Interact with staff, volunteers and guests regularly to ensure food service program operations are
efficient.
The Food Services Director will oversee the success of the Caring Kitchen. The Caring
Kitchen is a new Social Enterprise being operated within the Van Buren Center. The Director
will initially be responsible for tasks affiliated with a new business, including testing new
ideas, new transportation methodologies, etc., and closely monitoring and reporting on
progress towards goals and performance indicators of the business.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an
employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable
accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the
essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit and talk
or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle,
or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move
up to 40 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance
vision. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.